{"id":125684,"date":"2021-07-30T22:23:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T05:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/zaha-hadid-architects-creates-unreinforced-3d-printed-concrete-bridge-at-venice"},"modified":"2021-07-30T22:23:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T05:23:05","slug":"zaha-hadid-architects-creates-unreinforced-3d-printed-concrete-bridge-at-venice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/zaha-hadid-architects-creates-unreinforced-3d-printed-concrete-bridge-at-venice","title":{"rendered":"Zaha Hadid Architects creates unreinforced 3D-printed concrete bridge at Venice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/zaha-hadid-architects-creates-unreinforced-3d-printed-concrete-bridge-at-venice2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazing.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/zaha-hadid\/\">Zaha Hadid Architects<\/a> and ETH Zurich have built a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/3d-printing\/\">3D-printed<\/a> concrete footbridge named Striatus in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/venice-architecture-biennale\/\">Venice<\/a> that is freestanding and assembled without mortar.<\/p>\n<p>Named Striatus, the 16-metre-long bridge was built by the computation and design team at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zaha-hadid.com\/\">Zaha Hadid Architects<\/a>, known as ZHACODE, in collaboration with the <a href=\"https:\/\/block.arch.ethz.ch\">Block Research Group<\/a> (BRG) at Swiss university <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/eth-zurich\/\">ETH Zurich<\/a>, incremental3D and Holcim. It was constructed from 53 hollow blocks each printed from 500 layers of printed concrete.<\/p>\n<p>The structure is an unreinforced arched bridge that uses compression and gravity to hold its form. The studios arranged the 3D-printed wedge-shaped elements, known as voussoirs, to form arches and vaults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing. Zaha Hadid Architects and ETH Zurich have built a 3D-printed concrete footbridge named Striatus in Venice that is freestanding and assembled without mortar. Named Striatus, the 16-metre-long bridge was built by the computation and design team at Zaha Hadid Architects, known as ZHACODE, in collaboration with the Block Research Group (BRG) at Swiss university [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}